[4][5] At the entrance to the dormitory, the militant squad encountered the kibbutz secretary Sammy (Samuel) Shani, who happened to be at the site repairing the building's light fixtures.

[6] The militants then entered the building and killed two-year-old Eyal Gluska,[1] and snatched two babies from their cribs (one of whom was Sammy Shani's two-month-old son).

During that attempt, 19-year-old Israel Defense Forces (IDF) medic and combat soldier Eldad Tsafrir[7] was killed by the militants.

After lengthy negotiations, at around 10:00 pm on April 8, a special force of Sayeret Matkal, under the command of Major General Uzi Dayan, broke into the building through several openings during an attack that lasted only two minutes.

[2][3] Following the attack, Israel carried out Operation High Voltage (Hebrew: מבצע מתח גבוה, romanized: Mivtza Metach Gavoha) on April 17, 1980, in which seaborne Israeli Shayetet 13 commandos raided and destroyed the Ras el-Sheikh Palestinian guerrilla base in southern Lebanon (20 kilometers north of Tyre and about 40 kilometers north of the Israeli border).